From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of Netherland comes a collection of stunning, subversive, wryly comic stories that reveal the emotional depths and surprising beauty of life in the twenty-first century. A poet confronts the state of his art when asked to sign a petition-in-verse to free Edward Snowden. A man attending a wedding in Tuscany seeks a moment of solace with a friendly goose. A father uses a tracking app to follow his son´s stolen phone, opening wider questions of the world and its dangers. In these flashes of trouble, O´Neill unearths the real, secretly political consequences of our ordinary lives. No writer is more incisive about the world we live in now.